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WEBMALCOLM KNOX The First Friend. Reviewed by Ann Skea. Malcolm Knox’s new novel satirises the brutal madness of the Soviet Union, focussing on Stalin’s notorious head of secret police, Beria. In the business of producing fiction, the novelist can never keep up with authoritarian political leaders.
ANNA DOWNES Red River Road and LISA KENWAY All You Took …
WEB3 hours ago · Fellow writers group member Lisa Kenway’s All You Took From Me is a quirky debut that is part psychological thriller, part medical thriller, written in a pared-back commercial style that is peppered with Australian colloquialisms and slang.. Putting a medieval spin on the conventional Fight Club narrative with a bunch of armour-clad weekend warriors, Kenway’s novel delves into the world of ...
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WEBKylie Needham Girl in a Pink Dress. Reviewed by Annette Hughes. The ‘girl in a pink dress’ is Frances, a young art student who charms her tutor (twice her age) and becomes his muse … the author slowly dissolves the dark layers of varnish obscuring the truth that Frances conceals from herself, and therein lies the pleasure of this novel.
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WEBAbout Newtown Review of Books. Who we are | What we do | Get hold of the books | Quoting from NRB Contribute | Get Reviewed. The Newtown Review of Books was established in March 2012 by Jean Bedford and Linda Funnell as an independent site for book reviews.. We believe that a strong reviewing culture is important for both writers and readers. The Newtown Review of Books is produced entirely by ...
ANTONIA PONT The Memory Library. Reviewed by Ann Skea
WEB2 days ago · I was also left with the thought that AI might well produce a Memory Library like this one in the near future. Antonia Pont The Memory Library Spineless Wonders 2024 PB 214pp $24.99. Dr Ann Skea is a freelance reviewer, writer and an independent scholar of the work of Ted Hughes. She is author of Ted …
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WEBAmanda Lohrey The Labyrinth. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey. This book’s epigraph is ‘The cure for many ills, noted Jung, is to build something.’ In Part One of this novel, the main character, Erica Marsden, has many ills: she has a son in prison for manslaughter; she has memories of her dead parents, her abandonment as a child by her mother, and her estrangement from her only sibling, her ...
KATHERINE WILES No Autographs Please. Reviewed by Sally Nimon
WEB1 day ago · Katherine Wiles No Autographs Please Echo Publishing 2024 PB 288pp $34.99. Sally Nimon once graduated from university with an Honours degree majoring in English literature and has hung around higher education ever since. She is also an avid reader and keen devourer of stories, whatever the genre. You can buy No Autographs Please from Abbey’s ...
NRB readers’ favourite reviews of 2022 - The Newtown Review of …
WEBNRB readers’ favourite reviews of 2022. Tags: Amor Towles/ Audrey Magee/ Diana Reid/ Douglas Stuart/ Edwina Preston/ Elif Shafak/ Gillian McAllister/ Isabel Allende/ Jane Caro/ Trent Dalton Which of our reviews this year did you enjoy the most? We’ve run the numbers to discover our top ten reviews of 2022 based on reader views.
psychological thrillers Archives - The Newtown Review of Books
WEBThese two new crime thrillers from Australian writers Anna Downes and Lisa Kenway bring fresh takes to the genre. Writers groups are an increasingly popular way for new ...
NRB readers' top 10 for 2020 - The Newtown Review of Books
WEBEvie Wyld The Bass Rock. Reviewed by Linda Funnell. The Bass Rock opens with a small girl, who we will shortly meet as the grown-up Viv, finding the body of a woman in a suitcase on the beach.As her mother cries, ‘Come away, come away,’ the child sees inside the suitcase … [This is] an absorbing, and disturbing, account of three women’s lives and the violence that surrounds them.